Looking Back

Published 8:20 pm, Wednesday, July 24, 2013

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1913: Nine-year-old John Theodore Freeman Jr. of Albany drowned in the Hudson River at the basin at the foot of North Lansing Street after he chased a butterfly across a lumberyard, realizing too late he had reached the end of the wood piles that hung over the basin.

1963: Three area residents on a fishing trip died and one was hospitalized when their 18-foot launch capsized in the dark, choppy Atlantic Ocean off Rye Harbor, N.H.